Новости за 21.09.2016

The founder of Chipotle is trying to reassure customers that it’s safe to eat the food. In a video posted Wednesday to the Chipotle website, Steve Ells says he’s made good on his promise to improve food safety protections, including advancements in farming, stricter restaurant inspections and a system that tracks ingredients through the supply […]

Pilots at one of Europe’s biggest airlines are so tired they may be about to go on strike about it. EasyJet pilots voted Wednesday by a huge majority to take industrial action, according to their union, the British Airline Pilots’ Association. The association said 88% of its members at easyJet took part in the ballot, […]

A boat reportedly carrying 600 migrants capsized off the Egyptian coast near Kafr al-Sheikh, the Egyptian military said Wednesday. Around 150 people have been rescued and authorities have retrieved at least 30 bodies so far, the country’s state media reported. The boat was on its way to Italy, the news agency MENA reported, attributing the […]

Democratic Sen. Chris Coons said Wednesday that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko sought a meeting with Donald Trump during the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week but was ignored. “Earlier this summer, I led a bipartisan delegation to Eastern Europe. We visited Ukraine in particular, and I know President Poroshenko of Ukraine was […]

[Breaking news alert, posted at 12:33 p.m. ET Wednesday] The FBI wants to speak with two men that surveillance video allegedly shows removing an explosive device from a piece of luggage left in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood Saturday. The agency released a photograph of the men Wednesday and asked for the public’s assistance locating them. […]

Donald Trump said Wednesday he was “very troubled” by the fatal police shooting late last week in Oklahoma of an unarmed black man and suggested the officer in question “got scared” or was “choking.” Trump offered his first public reaction to the shooting during an event at the church of Pastor Darrell Scott, a black […]

Secretary of State John Kerry launched a blistering attack on Russia Wednesday for its actions in Syria, pointing to the bombing of a UN aid convoy that left more than 20 dead and its inability to stop continued Syrian air attacks. Kerry spoke immediately after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a United Nations Security […]

Cleared for takeoff! Airbus has just been given the green light by the U.S. government to sell planes to Iran despite fierce political opposition to the deal. The Treasury department has approved the sale of 17 A320 and A330 passenger aircraft, part of a much bigger deal Airbus signed with Iran after economic sanctions were […]

Nike just dropped new details about its self-lacing sneakers. Nearly 30 years after Marty McFly wore Nike sneakers with “power laces” in “Back to the Future 2,” the brand is launching a real version of the iconic pair on Monday, November 28, also known as Cyber Monday. While Nike showed off the sneakers — called […]

The fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott sparked violent protests and fires in Charlotte. But it’s certainly not the first time Charlotte-area police have been criticized for their use of deadly force. Here’s a look at Charlotte’s recent history of controversial police shootings: Keith Lamont Scott Date of death: September 20, 2016 What happened: […]

Michelle Obama on Tuesday joked about the plagiarism controversy that engulfed Melania Trump during the Republican National Convention, delivering a dry retort when “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert asked the first lady if she was sympathetic to the plight of a fellow political spouse. “Melania Trump was criticized for using what turned out to […]

If your homeland is crippled by debt, poverty, unemployment and the Zika virus, the claim that you alone can lift the public’s spirits might appear fanciful. But when you’ve just become your nation’s first Olympic gold medalist, the booming chat is supported by some heavy metal. It’s still something, however, to shoulder the expectation of […]

All his life, Chris Olah was told you can’t trust the government. His grandfather and his father drilled it into his head that you have to rely on yourself and can’t expect the government to bail you out. Olah, 43, still believes the federal government is to blame for many of the problems affecting working […]

September 21 is International Day of Peace. Maybe one day, we’ll all observe it. Here’s what you need to know today to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door. 1. Charlotte protests Protesters blocked an interstate, set fire to it and threw rocks at officers in Charlotte last night after cops killed a black […]

A man was injured during an attempted attack on the Israeli Embassy in Ankara Wednesday, Israel’s Foreign Affairs spokesman Emmanuel Nashon told CNN. The attacker, who appeared to have a weapon, was shot by a security guard and lightly wounded, Nashon said. Developing story – more to come

Could India and Pakistan really go to war? It almost seems an absurd question to ask. After all, both countries have long been nuclear powers — a deterrent that encompasses the lives of a combined 1.4 billion people. Both nations have also seen some years of relative peace along their border, a break from the […]

Margarita Montañez came to the United States from Mexico in 1970 when she was 23 years old. She raised six children but says one of her greatest accomplishments was becoming a United States citizen in 1999. “I wanted to vote,” she said. “I wanted to have a say in my children’s future.” The Latino vote […]

Rev. Raphael Warnock crouched forward in a back pew here at Ebenezer Baptist Church and wondered what could have been. “I’m not afraid of Johnny Isakson,” said Warnock of his Republican senator, at times distracted by the decades-old, muffled recordings of Martin Luther King Jr.’s sermons that echoed in this historic sanctuary. “I’m not interested […]

Every time Bernie Ecclestone has been under threat, he has typically reverted to humor. After the Formula One supremo was robbed and knocked unconscious by muggers, who got away with his luxury watch, he posed for an advert with the slogan “See what people will do for a Hublot.” And in August 2014, when he […]

Global trade is stuck in a deep malaise and may even be suffering from “cardiac arrest.” That’s the grim warning in new research released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD], which warns of serious consequences for living standards if trade growth does not rebound. OECD researchers found that annual growth in global […]

With two months to go before Election Day, Democrats have the cash advantage in the race for the White House, but Republicans have the cash advantage in the race for the Senate. Presidential campaigns and their supportive super PACs filed new numbers Tuesday that continue to show Clinton’s cash lead in the homestretch of the […]

Protests erupted in North Carolina following the fatal shooting of a man by a police officer at an apartment complex in Charlotte. Demonstrators gathered near the complex Tuesday night, carrying signs that said “Black Lives Matter” and chanting “no justice, no peace.” The man shot by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer that afternoon was identified as […]

News that Angelina Jolie is filing for divorce from Brad Pitt is causing rumbles — and not just on social media. The US Geological Survey detected a small earthquake Tuesday near Los Angeles just minutes after news broke that the power couple were splitting up. CNN has confirmed the two incidents are unrelated. News (of […]

There’s another new messaging app out today, but this one’s worth a download. While Facebook has been working to integrate bots with Messenger, Google went ahead and built a messaging app around the most useful bot there is: Google search. Allo, which was announced in May but is now available for download, marries Google search […]

“Eat badly and work hard,” 94-year-old Giuseppe told me when I asked him the secret to a long life. Giuseppe was taking me to his garden, which he tends to every day, growing tomatoes, peppers, lemons, oranges and lotus fruit. We had come to his hometown of Acciaroli, south of Naples, for a report on […]